2 Kings 17, Ezekiel 23, Acts 16:25-40, Revelation 7:1-8, Psalm 119:121-14:One of my favorite songs to sing is entitled I Bless Your Name. It is sung by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. In the Song it describes the scene from Acts 16 where Paul and Silas are in the Jail and yet they sang.
Acts 16:25 “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.”
The song goes on to say that in their pain as they began to sing their chains were loosed and they were freed. In the account in the Bible there was an earthquake and sure enough they were freed, but in reality they were free in their spirits even when the chains were on because of their freedom in Christ. He was their reason to sing.
The song continues on to say
“Some midnight hour if you should find,
You’re in a prison in your mind,
Sing out in praise, defy those chains,
And they will fall in Jesus name, Just sing,
I bless Your Name,
I bless Your Name,
I give You Honor, give You praise,
You are the Life, the Truth, the Way.
I bless Your Name, I bless Your Name.”
If you should find yourself in a prison today, not necessarily of physical bars, but in chains non the less, I challenge you to sing out in praise to the Name that is above every name. At His Name there is freedom, peace and hope. Sing out my friend, sing out and believe. I too Bless His Name!